Is the White House in the technological dark ages? Hardly, say the people who just left it.
Former Bush administration staffers disputed the tone of a Washington Post story published Thursday that described a tech-savvy Obama team moving into a building equipped with creaky computers, out-of-date software, no e-mail service and dead phone lines.
Rather, the former staffers said, the White House has everything a modern corporate office would — Windows XP, BlackBerrys, Outlook e-mail, plenty of laptops and lots of flatscreen monitors and TVs.
"It's a shame if they're having problems moving in," said Theresa Payton, White House chief information officer from 2006 until this past November. "We began to prepare for the transition well ahead of the election cycle. Our aim was to leave it in better shape than we found it."[read more...]
foxnews.com/story
1/23/09
1/17/09
How about that hah?
Even though these stories are commonplace in Washington today, the argument can be made that this president has passed
- major tax and education bills,
- pacified Afghanistan and removed Saddam Hussein from power,
- all while defeating recession.
So what if his administration looks dysfunctional?
In basketball, it is called winning ugly. The trouble is that a team that wins ugly sometimes starts losing - washingtonpost
1/15/09
1/12/09
1/5/09
Damn Twitter
No wonder I stopped going there and I am glad I did! I went back today and changed my password and never again will I trust some idiots who has nothing to do but hack other users name and who knows what? [Read here]
1/3/09
Gaza Occupied by the IDF | More Videos
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1/1/09
For Crying Out Loud!
Palestinians and Israelis are making their lives so miserable and what a horror!
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How sad!
That's a lot of money to spend for these illegal aliens---set them free! This is a good decision to make. (My Opinion)
12/29/08
Make War not Love | No Chance for Peace
What a horror! I have nothing to say---it is quite complicated and it is politically motivated.
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12/28/08
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12/15/08
12/14/08
No word on auto bailout "for a while" | It's too bad!
The White House said on Sunday it did not expect any announcement on a U.S. auto industry rescue plan before President George W. Bush returns to the United States from Iraq, leaving their fate in limbo.
By Matt Spetalnick
Source: (Reuters)
It is very pathetic!
By Matt Spetalnick
Source: (Reuters)
It is very pathetic!
12/10/08
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